Out of the past 10/21/10

25 years ago: Oct. 21, 1985

Stressing a theme of "leadership, commitment and cooperation," Cape Girardeau City Council member Loretta Schneider makes her mayoral candidacy official, announcing at a news conference that she will seek to become the city's first female mayor.

A permanent exhibit room at the River Heritage Museum will be unveiled at a formal opening Thursday at the museum in old Fire Station One; the room, recently refurbished with new carpeting and display cases, will feature Cape Girardeau area memorabilia.

50 years ago: Oct. 21, 1960

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Harry S. Truman, back in Southeast Missouri for the first time since 1953, meets old friends and lets loose a typical broadside at Republican candidates that had 1,500 partisan Democrats roaring approval at a dinner in the armory here last night.

Dr. C.A.W. Zimmermann III, member of a family with many members in the medical profession, an active practitioner for more than a half century, and a doctor in Cape Girardeau for 27 years, dies unexpectedly at his home, Oakenwold, on Bend Road; he was 85.

75 years ago: Oct. 21, 1935

All three pastors of Methodist churches in Cape Girardeau have been returned to their pastorates for another year: the Rev. R.H. Daugherty to Centenary, the Rev. J.C. McDaniel to Maple Avenue, and the Rev. A.N. Holt to Third Street.

Coach Abe Stuber's Teachers College Indians and Don Faurot's University of Missouri football teams remain the only unbeaten and untied football teams in the state; Culver-Stockton and Tarkio were rolled out of the perfect list over the weekend.

100 years ago: Oct. 21, 1910

Kenneth Harris, a newspaperman of Chicago, who has become a celebrated writer for the Hearst newspapers, has his boat anchored in the Mississippi River at the foot of Independence Street; with his wife and child, and crew of one trusty sailor, he is on his way to New Orleans and then to Florida to spend the winter.

The street work on Broadway is being pushed right along; the excavation is finished almost out to Pacific Street, and the concrete foundation has been put down to Sprigg Street.

-- Sharon K. Sanders